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I read that I can supply a password to Hazel 6 and then it can read the contents of a password protected PDF like Bank Statement. Is there an action for Hazel to strip the password before filing the file? Each bank have different password convention and I always find that I can't remember what password format they used, so I ended up having to search for the email.

Not at the moment. Hazel, in general, avoids modifying file contents. I suggest looking into other programs that do this that you can script from Hazel. Maybe Preview can do this?

Thank you for your response.

Hi, I would also like to strip off my passwords. Would be great if the copy function had a checkbox to do that or something.

This command line tool can strip the password.

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qpdf --decrypt --password=PDF_PASSWORD "passwordprotected.pdf" "nopassword.pdf"

Change PDF_PASSWORD to the password of the PDF.